Elliot Sharp - a central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years - ends his recent stay in Berlin with a special one-off concert at ACUD presented by AUXXX. He will be joined onstage by ASHES - a dynamic new Berlin combo who made their debut appearance last year at the legendary Konfrontationen Festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria. The night will feature three sets of kaleidoscopic music: E# solo - ASHES - E# + ASHES, a magical alchemical mix in the true AUXXX tradition!

E# is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer. A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction. His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Kronos String Quartet; Ensemble Resonanz; cello innovator Frances Marie Uitti; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; pipa virtuoso Min-Xiao Feng; jazz greats Jack deJohnette, Oliver Lake, and Sonny Sharrock; multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe; and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jajouka.Sharp is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2014 Fellow at Parson's Center for Transformative Media. He received the 2015 Berlin Prize in Musical Composition from the American Academy in Berlin. He has composed scores for feature films and documentaries; created sound-design for interstitials on The Sundance Channel, MTV and Bravo networks; and has presented numerous sound installations in art galleries and museums. He is the subject of a new documentary "Doing The Don't" by filmmaker Bert Shapiro.

Richard Scott is a free improvising musician and electroacoustic composer working with electronics including modular synthesizers and controllers such as the Buchla Thunder and Lightning and his own self-designed WiGi infra red controller developed at STEIM. He has been composing and performing for over 25 years recently working with artists such as Evan Parker, Jon Rose, Richard Barrett, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Shelley Hirsch, Ute Wasserman, Michael Vorfeld, Frank Gratkowski and his own Lightning Ensemble. He studied free improvisation in the 80s with John Stevens, saxophone with Elton Dean and Steve Lacy, and electroacoustic composition with David Berezan and Ricardo Climent. He has released many albums, for example with Grutronic and Evan Parker for PSI records, The Magnificence of Stereo (sruti BOX) and an album with Twinkle³ and Sidsel Endreson, Debris in Lower Earth Orbit. He has a solo double modular synthesizer LP, Several Circles due for release on CUSP Editions in 2016.

Steve is a drummer and composer based in Berlin. He was born in Melbourne and studied percussion/improvisation at the Victoria College of the Arts and performance art at Das Arts, Amsterdam. His current music projects/bands include: The Cool Gang with Anthea Caddy, Robin Hayward and Hilary Jeffery, TUB with Boris Hauf and Thomas Meadowcroft, The Still with Rico Repetente, Derek Shirley, Booklet with Toby Delius and Joe Williamson, Mrs Conception with Axel Doerner, Toby Delius and Jan roder), Lysn with alfredo Genovesi, Rozemarie Heggen and Hilary Jeffery. Steve also is a co-founder of the performance group SXS Enterprise with Siegmar Zacharias and Xander de Boer. As sound designer, composer and performer, Steve works regularly in the fields of dance, theatre, film new media, performance and has worked with the Netherlands Dance Theatre, Sandra Parker Dance, Scapino Ballet, Ivana Müller and Dansgroep Amsterdam.

Various trombones have travelled alongside Hilary to many inspiring places since 1990. He has played in diverse settings including theatres, jazz clubs, cathedrals, night clubs, festivals, dance studios, bars, cinemas, streets and mountains. Some favourite highlights include: a seven-hour Anthroposophic theatre production at Rudolf Steiner’s Goetheanum in Switzerland, late night appearances at underground techno clubs in the UK and Berlin, at the Tokyo New National Theatre with Sand in Saburo Teshigawara’s epic production “Green”, as a trombone-dervish in a disused mine in Belgium, for Tibetan Lama’s in the Himalayan town Kaza on the occasion of the Dalai Lama’s birthday, for long drone performances with Catherine Christer Hennix in Amsterdam, Berlin and New York, at Arles amplitheatre and Havana Parque de Trillo for performances of work by Anri Sala, in remote North Ghana playing for chiefs and villagers with Polyversal Souls featuring Guy One, various haunted cinemas with an Inconsolable Ghost...

Audrey Chen is a Chinese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization in early and new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sound in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic.
Chen’s work delves into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of the homemade analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language. Over the past decade, her predominant focus has been her solo work with the cello, voice and electronics, but she has more recently begun to shift back towards the exploration of the voice as a primary instrument. Recent projects, aside from performing solo, include her voice only duo with London based artist, Phil Minton, a duo with NYC abstract turntablist, Maria Chavez and a collaborative project with German conceptual artist, John Bock. Recent album releases (2013) include, a quartet LP with Nate Wooley, C. Spencer Yeh and Todd Carter on Monotype (Warsaw), and a duo record with Phil Minton on Subrosa (Brussels).